BillyCarpenter1

Tampa Bay-Befitting a Super Bowl champion, the Bucs play a challenging schedule this season, one that the NFL ranks as the 4th toughest in the league this year. They have to travel to Philly to christen that new facility and of course that will be tough, but they should enter the bye week no worse than 2-1. That early bye is the only major drawback to a slate that sees them facing only the possibility of two cold weather games. One key will be how they do against the Saints, who beat them twice last year and obviously match up quite well with them. If Tampa loses to them twice again the likelihood of seeing them again in the playoffs would rise significantly, and rest assured that the Saints are the last team Tampa wants lining up across from them with the season on the line.